Updated January 29, 2011
Lent is a time of preparation for the death of Christ on Good Friday and His Resurrection on Easter Sunday. It is a period of 40 days of repentance, with prayer, fasting and abstinence, and Confession.
Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, 46 days before Easter Sunday. (For an explanation why Lent begins 46 days before Easter but is only 40 days long, see How Are the 40 Days of Lent Calculated?) For Eastern Rite Catholics, Lent begins two days earlier, on Clean Monday. The following is a list of the dates of the Sundays and major feast days that fall in Lent 2014.
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- Clean Monday (Monday, March 3, 2014)
- Ash Wednesday (Wednesday, March 5, 2014)
- First Sunday of Lent (Sunday, March 9, 2014)
- Second Sunday of Lent (Sunday, March 16, 2014)
- Feast of Saint Patrick (Monday, March 17, 2014)
- Feast of Saint Joseph (Wednesday, March 19, 2014)
- Third Sunday of Lent (Sunday, March 23, 2014)
- The Annunciation of the Lord (Tuesday, March 25, 2014)
- Fourth Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday) (Sunday, March 30, 2014)
- Fifth Sunday of Lent (Passion Sunday) (Sunday, April 6, 2014)
- Palm Sunday (Sunday, April 13, 2014)
- Holy Thursday (Thursday, April 17, 2014)
- Good Friday (Friday, April 18, 2014)
- Holy Saturday (Saturday, April 19, 2014)
- Easter (Sunday, April 20, 2014)
